St Elizabeths in Washington, D.C.: Architecture of an Asylum (Landmarks) - Softcover

Leavitt, Sarah A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1467141720 ISBN 13: 9781467141727

Verlag: HISTORY PR, 2019

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Reseña del editor

St. Elizabeths has been a mental health hospital in Washington, D.C., since 1852, when it was established by the United States Congress as the Government Hospital for the Insane. St. Elizabeths, along with other hospitals, experienced rapid expansion in its first century, hitting a peak of almost eight thousand patients by the 1960s. Deinstitutionalization in the second half of the twentieth century emptied out the historic buildings on campus. This well-illustrated book follows an exhibition at the National Building Museum, tracing the hospital's evolution over time, highlighting the ways that this specialized architecture and landscape served the mentally ill. It continues the story of St. Elizabeths, a National Historic Landmark, through its current redevelopment as a federal campus and mixed-use neighborhood.

Biografía del autor

Sarah A. Leavitt is a curator at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., where her exhibition subjects have included low-income renter eviction, community policing and the history of the parking garage. She is the editor of Taliesin Diary: A Year with Frank Lloyd Wright (Norton, 2013) and the author of From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). Leavitt graduated from Wesleyan University and holds a PhD in American studies from Brown University. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with her husband and son.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: HISTORY PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1467141720
• ISBN 13: 9781467141727
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176